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ccjapu@uta.fi (Jarmo Puntanen) wrote:
>In article <823128131snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk>,
>Phil Hunt  <philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr>
>>           mbonnaud@francenet.fr "Marc Bonnaud" writes:
>>> >Phil Hunt <philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> >>Therefore the best way to settle the issue would be to have a Europe-wide
>>> 
> >> Freedom of speech in one's own language is by far as important as
> >> freedom of thought, given the strong dependances between language
> >> and thought.
>
>From that idea one can only derive e.g. that bilingual people could and
>_would_ own two sets of 'thoughts', which I think is not only unlikely, 
>but possibly even a sign of a major mental illness.

Well, the same examples have to be told again  and again to open the 
eyes of the ignorant :

- where I, as a french speaker, make the difference between a "fleuve " and 
a "rivi�re", the english-speaking person will only see a "river"
- where the english, german, french ... speakers make a difference between 
blue and green, the breton speakers only have one word .
- any non Spanish trying to learn the language knows the difficulty to 
use properly "ser" or "estar", where in other languages there is only one
word "to be", "sein", "essere", "�tre" ...
- and so on ...


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